The whiff of spring is in the air, so cue up “Pomp and Circumstance.” It’s college commencement season once again in the region, a festive six-week celebration as freshly minted graduates head off into the world. Here is a rundown of the undergraduate ceremonies. Get the hankies ready.

Honorary degree: Laurence Prusak ,ifounded and directed the Center for Business Innovation at Ernst and Young, and the IBM Institute for Knowledge Management; currently senior adviser on knowledge for NASA.

Speakers: Pedro Noguera, executive director of the Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools; and Chris Van Allsburg, children’s author known for “Polar Express” and other works.

Honorary degrees: Blackmun and Laura Sen, president and chief executive officer of BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc.

Endicott College

May 16, 10:30 a.m., Endicott Stadium, Beverly

Speaker: Raymond J. Bourque, Boston Bruins great

Graduates: 510

Honorary degrees: Bourque and Nancy E Frates, mother of Pete Frates, the former Boston College baseball captain who has raised attention about ALS.

Wheaton College

May 16, 10 a.m., the Dimple (central quadrangle), Norton

Speaker: Lisa Szarkowski , vice president of humanitarian emergencies and executive communication for the US Fund for UNICEF.

Graduates: 371

Honorary degrees: Szarkowski; Steven Hawley, former astronaut and a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Kansas; David Wagner, founder and CEO of Evanston Capital Management and a member of the Wheaton Board of Trustees; Virginia Weil, retired senior managing director of the Business Council for International Understanding in Washington, D.C., and a former member of the Wheaton board.

Stonehill College

May 17 at 10 a.m., at college on quadrangle lawn (Easton)

Speaker: Kenneth Feinberg, guided the One Fund after the Marathon bombings

Honorary degrees: US Rep. William R Keating; John F Barros, chief of economic development for Boston; Paul Guzzi, president and CEO of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce; Anthony Pangaro, principal of Millennium Partners-Boston; Robert Brustein, director, actor, playwright; Gloria E White-Hammond, physician at the South End Community Center.